In response, Orhan Ayyüce offered up an image of the sublimely absurd, "I am always baffled by big houses that are marketed with +5.5 bathrooms (very common in wealthy neighborhoods) and so on. And of course these host extremely hi end living styles. It is kind of funny to think all these people do all day is shit and shit and shit everywhere in the house".

Xenaxis "worked with Francis Tsai at Rockstar games and he was one of the people who inspired me to study architecture".

News

The Washington Post Editorial Board published a letter, in support of the Gehry designed Eisenhower memorial which a recent Congressional report labeled "A Five-Star Folly". Steven Ward doesn't understand why Gehry hasn’t cut his losses and walked away by now, "it's just become the fodder for another conservative culture offensive and letting it drag on isn't helping the memorial, gehry's office, dc, or our national cultural discussion...let's stop giving a podium for ad hominem attacks on modernism (and, by extension, anything progressive) in general".

MrMayberry wanted to chat about the Next wave of big names in architecture...Non Sequitur admitted "I recognize none of these names”. AS jw468 pointed out though “At least three on this list are already big names. Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radic, and Bolle Tham & Martin Videgård...I cannot comment on the rest".

Janosh took a more critical position "although this might be important for the editors of Azure, I would like to think that the next important thing won't be the reinvention of a single family home, an installation, a private gallery, or made by someone related by marriage to Carlos Slim…". Plus, SIAMESE DREAM complained "Your list is hardly a GLOBAL...No Australian or SE Asia based firm....?"

JonathanLivingston was fed up - F*#*K Competitions. Carrera believed he was being too harsh "I had a 40 year career as an owner and looking back I wish I would have taken time to do competitions. I didn’t do a single one but I wish I had”. For those looking to boost their portfolio archanonymous had a suggestion "instead of responding to someone's shitty call-for-entry...just pick a site and program that interests you and make some speculative paper architecture".

Finally, BulgarBlogger argued Inspirational Images are bullshit! chigurh quipped "pinterest + houzz = the future of avant garde architectural design" and robbmc laid blame "Complete disassociation results in post modernism...I understand your point and have seen this before, picking design elements out of context and mixing them up is a terrible method of design".